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THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS 



HARYARD COLLEGE. 



CAMBRIDGE: 

PRESS OP JOHN WILSON AND SONS. 
1866. 






NEW YORK PUBL. UBl. 
IN EXCHANGE. 



APPEAL. 



To the Alumni and others, Friends of Harvard College : 

The Committee of Fifty appointed by the Associa- 
tion of the Alumni at its last meeting upon the 
subject of a perpetual memorial commemorative of 
the graduates and students of the College who fell, 
and of those who served, in the late rebellion, respect- 
fully inform you of the result of their deliberations, 
and solicit your aid in accomplishing the plan, which, 
after much consideration, has been unanimously and 
very cordially adopted. 

At first sight, there may seem to be a want of 
delicacy in thus approaching any who are not Alumni 
of the College, or in some other mode more imme- 
diately concerned in its associations and welfare. 
But the elements of the contemplated design are so 
comprehensive in their anticipated influences upon 
the sentiments and associations, not only of the 
present, but of every coming generation of the in- 
genuous youth of our country; and are so inter- 



woven with the best means of advancing the causes 
of literature, science, and art, and of promoting and 
transmitting the inspiration of a lofty patriotism, 
that it might, with more propriety, be considered in- 
vidious to exclude any from taking part in that which, 
in truth, is a public enterprise. 

The first movement upon this subject was made by 
a numerous assembly of graduates, called for its con- 
sideration, and holden in May, at which a large Com- 
mittee was appointed for its examination, with instruc- 
tions to report at an adjourned meeting. Their report 
was made in the following month of July, contain- 
ing a somewhat elaborate discussion of the several 
plans suggested, and terminating with the recom- 
mendation of a " Memorial Hall," combining the 
elements of the plan hereinafter described, as the most 
suitable and desirable memorial. The report and 
recommendation were accepted with almost entire 
unanimity, and ordered to be printed in two of the 
daily gazettes, and also in pamphlet form, and to be 
circulated as extensively as possible among the 
Alumni. It was further resolved that a copy of 
the report and resolutions should be transmitted to the 
association of the Alumni, at its meeting on Com- 
mencement Day, with the request, that, if they should 
coincide in the opinion thus expressed, they would 
take measures for procuring the means of erecting 
the proposed Hall. 

At that meeting of the Association, the report and 
resolutions were presented ; and, after debate, the 
whole subject was submitted to a " Committee of 



Fifty," "with full powers." That Committee, after 
discussion at several meetings, placed the whole sub- 
ject in the hands of a sub-committee of six, with 
directions to report at a future meeting. This Sub- 
committee, which was composed of members origin- 
ally of divers opinions as to the most suitable 
memorial, after extensive inquiries and much delib- 
eration, made their report in the month of De- 
cember, unanimously recommending the adoption of 
the plan represented in the accompanying engraving 
and description; and the General Committee ac- 
cepted the report with unanimity and great cor- 
diality. 

The plan, therefore, is presented to you, not as the 
scheme of any one, or of any few enthusiastic advo- 
cates, but as founded upon the deliberate convictions 
of the great body of the Alumni, declared by those 
appointed to represent them. Nor is the proposed 
"Memorial" one of merely local or limited inter- 
est; nor will it be of merely academic influence. 
It will stand, rather, a national monument to patriot- 
ism and learning, dear to the present, and to become 
ever dearer to every succeeding generation. 

The proposed scheme is founded upon three great 
wants of the University, each of such magnitude and 
urgency, that she ought not in vain to appeal to her 
sons or her friends. 

The first — and that lying deepest in the hearts of 
all — is the irrepressible desire of a suitable monu- 
ment in commemoration of the sons of Harvard who 
perilled and laid down their lives to preserve us, as a 



nation, and in defence of all that makes our country 
dear to us. As to the irresistible moral necessity of 
such a monument, there has been no difference of opin- 
ion. The only diversity was concerning the nature or 
form which should most eloquently express the senti- 
ments and emotions inspired by the services and 
sacrifices it should commemorate, and best perpetu- 
ate their influence upon those who are to come 
after us. 

Under other circumstances, the construction of a 
monument in the College grounds, devoted exclu- 
sively to the remembrance of those who have thus 
fallen, might have been all that opportunity would 
permit us to offer; defective as such a monument 
would have appeared to many who desire, in memo- 
rials of the dead, not only remembrance of their de- 
parture, but also associations of them with all that is 
elevating and inspiring in the duties and enjoyments 
of life ; and ineffectual, as, in the lapse of years, it 
might become for reviving their memories in College 
hearts. Or there might have remained to us only the 
still feebler tribute of mural tablets in the chapel, or 
some other collegiate hall. 'But, happily, by a com- 
bination of College necessities of almost equal urgen- 
cy, and concurring with singular force at this especial 
moment of time, the opportunity is presented of erect- 
ing a memorial, not only comprising such a monument 
and tablets, with ample scope for every other species 
of grateful tribute to *the dead, but united also with 
other College structures, composing portions of it, or 
inseparably blended with it, in such a manner as to 



secure a constant remembrance of those who fell, and 
an undying perpetuation of their virtues, in connec- 
tion with those of the founders, benefactors, and other 
illustrious sons of the University, — a memorial, con- 
stituting a Historic Gallery, where the names and 
effigies of those "who died for their country" will 
hold the most conspicuous place, and, as shining por- 
tions of the galaxy which the College has delighted 
to honor, will inspire her orators and poets in her 
literary festivals and at her genial table, until time to 
her shall be no more. 

Of the first of these necessities, that of a Monu- 
mental Memorial, no more need be said. 

The second (and the importance of this in the pres- 
ent and prospective condition of the College cannot 
well be exaggerated) is that of a Hall, in which to 
hold the meetings of the Alumni, and for their festal 
entertainments on the various occasions on which these 
are held. It is universally known that the present 
dining-hall is not only in other respects unsuitable and 
in ill accord with the dignity of the University, when 
proposing to invite all her children to her annual fes- 
tival, and to entertain with them distinguished guests 
from all parts of our own country and from abroad, 
but that it is altogether inadequate for their recep- 
tion ; so that not only are the members of the gradu- 
ating class, to whom the day is particularly dedicated, 
and who feel the nearest interest in its proceed- 
ings, by rule wholly excluded, but large numbers of 
older graduates cannot gain admittance. It needs no 
argument to show, that such exclusion, if it does not 



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excite aversion and disgust, deterring from College 
celebrations many who would otherwise resort to 
them, must have such a tendency, and materially im- 
pair the. interest which might otherwise be felt in 
them. Nor have the Alumni any other place of 
assembly, at which their meetings may be held, ex- 
cept as they may borrow for the occasion a lecture- 
room from one of the Professors. The need, there- 
fore, of a suitable hall for their own meetings and 
festivals, and for those of the University on Com- 
mencement Day and at other times*, and those of 
the Phi Beta Kappa, Class Day, and kindred institu- 
tions, is absolute, looking only upon the relations of 
the Alumni to the College as they have heretofore 
stood ; and is annually hicreasing with the augmenta- 
tion of the numbers in the classes. But a further 
need has recently arisen with the power conferred by 
the legislature upon the Alumni of electing the Over- 
seers, thus placing the visitatorial power over the 
University in their hands. This power imposes a 
corresponding duty; and it cannot be but that the 
annual choice of members of that Board will give 
very great additional interest to the meetings of the 
Alumni, and largely increase the number which will 
attend them. Especially must this be so when any 
important question affecting the management of the 
College or its interests shall agitate the public 
mind, as, from time to time, some one inevitably 
will do. 

It is such festivities and meetings that engender and 
nourish love for the College ; it is by them that inter- 



est in her welfare is stimulated, and a good fellowship 
among her sons cultivated which is of inestimable 
value to her and to themselves. 

The third necessity, a necessity certainly no less im- 
perative, and one from which no escape is perceived 
but by the aid of contributions for the purpose, is 
that of a Theatre for the celebration of the liter- 
ary festivals of the College and its affiliated institu- 
tions. 

The meeting-house of the religious society, in which 
these solemnities are now held, is, in point of pro- 
priety and dignity, most obviously unsuitable for those 
purposes, and of entirely insufficient capacity. But, 
if these deficiencies could be longer endured, no option 
is left to us, as the building is already tottering in 
decay, requiring constant precautions preparatory for 
such uses, and must very soon be taken down ; leaving 
the College wholly without any place of assembly 
but the open air for these celebrations. And it is but 
too well known that she has no means of erecting any 
hall from her present resources. 

Such are the three immediate and urgent necessi- 
ties, to relieve which our Alma Mater is now calling 
upon her sons and her friends for help. If they were 
unavoidably distinct, and not susceptible of combina- 
tion in perfect harmony and mutual aid, there might 
be hesitation or perplexity in selecting that for which 
such help should be first given ; or preference for one 
might leave another unprovided for. But such is the 
nature of each required structure, and such its pur- 
poses and uses, that all may be most happily blended ; 



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each adding greatly to the usefulness, beauty, dignity, 
and desired influences of the other. 

The monumental portion, of impressive grandeur 
and simplicity, and giving to the whole building the 
aspect of the memorial which will have more imme- 
diately led to its erection, not only adds its solemn and 
touching beauty without and within, but, being thus 
connected with the majestic hall in which are to be 
placed the portraits, statues, busts, and other memorials 
of Harvard's immortal sons, and connected, through 
that with the magnificent theatre, where the lite- 
rary festivals are to be celebrated, gives an other- 
wise unattainable dignity to both, and must ever prove' 
an unfailing source of inspiration and elevated senti- 
ment in the solemnities to which they are to be conse- 
crated; while both, in turn, by the services within 
their walls, will render it to every succeeding age 
more dear, and more sacredly to be preserved from 
dilapidation or decay. 

The blending of these three objects in one building 
was the desire of the Committees who have had the 
subject in charge, and several plans of various merit 
have been obtained ; but it was reserved for the skill 
and taste of Mr. William K. Ware, of the class of 
1852, and of Mr. Henry Van Brunt, of the class 
of 1854, to complete the appropriate, beautiful, and 
majestic combination, which has not only demon- 
strated the practicability of the union, but proved it 
to be the effectual mode of presenting each struc 
ture in the most perfect form for accomplishing its 
design. 



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The enthusiasm which this plan has excited, it is 
hoped, may be accounted a happy augury of success. 

It is a sad, and, must we not add, a disreputable 
fact, that Harvard, the oldest University on the Am- 
erican continent, with the noblest record in the liter- 
ature and science of the country, and of honorable 
fame throughout the civilized world, has not one edi- 
fice which her children or the stranger may visit, as 
the shrine of her founders, benefactors, and illustrious 
sons, — not a hall within her boundaries, or which she 
may call her own, in which to celebrate her literary 
and scientific festivals, nor one in which she can 
gather her children and her guests around her hos- 
pitable board; that the busts and portraits and stat- 
ues and other memorials of her illustrious dead, and 
her precious relics of antiquity, are scattered in divers 
and unsuitable buildings ; that what should be her 
august assemblies are held in a borrowed meeting- 
house, and her feasts in a room without beauty or 
dignity, and incapable of receiving large numbers of 
those entitled and desirous to partake. 

The time has at length arrived when this state of 
things ought not to be, and, may we not say, cannot 
be longer endured. 

The high position of the University among the lit- 
erary institutions of the world ; her history from the 
foundation of the country, no less signal in patriotism 
than in letters and science ; the memories ' of her il- 
lustrious dead of past generations ; the blood of her 
noble sons, shed in the recent redemption of the na- 
tion, all demand that a shrine be erected for the 



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memorials of them, at which her children may ever 
assemble in fond veneration, to drink its holy inspira- 
tions; while the urgent necessities, above alluded to, 
at the same time appeal, with seemingly irresistible 
force, to the generosity of her sons and her friends. 
And what other shrine so appropriate and impressive, 
and so full of such inspiration ; and what other relief 
from those necessities so comprehensive, and so re- 
plete with the most desirable influences, can be ima- 
gined, as an "Historic. Temple," uniting monumental 
memorials and other tributes to the dead, and tokens 
of the loyalty of her sons, with the halls consecrated 
to her literary and social festivals ? 

The undersigned are aware that the opinion is held 
by some liberal friends of the University, whose 
views are entitled to great consideration, that, owing 
to the need of other and more suitable accommoda- 
tions for the library, her interests would be better and 
more immediately subserved by converting Gore Hall 
into a theatre ; and erecting another building for 
the library, with monumental or other memorials to 
those who have fallen in the rebellion, constructed 
within, or attached to, its walls ; and yet another for 
the meetings and festivals of the Alumni. It is be- 
lieved that no essential difficulty will be found in 
the making of such alteration and amendment of 
Gore Hall as may be from time to time required to 
render it a suitable depository of the College library, 
and that this may be done at a cost very far short of 
that of erecting a new edifice appropriate for the pur- 
pose, so that it may be retained for its present use, in 



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honor of the benefactor whose name it bears. But, 
however that may be, it does not seem credible that 
this plan could be effected at less expense than 
that recommended by the Committee. Without enter- 
ing into any discussion of then comparative merits in 
point of utility, beauty, and immediate and future influ- 
ences upon the welfare of the College, it seems enough 
to say, that, in the present state of feeling among the 
Alumni and of the public, any other project than that 
now recommended, is, at the least for an indefinite 
future, impracticable. This project — being that 
prompted by the sentiments and feelings of the Alum- 
ni in their first action upon the subject; made the 
topic of careful and elaborate consideration, in com- 
parison with all others, suggested by so many com- 
mittees ; so widely discussed among the graduates 
and friends of the College for so many months; so 
beautifully illustrated in the plan now submitted ; and 
so unanimously recommended by the General Com- 
mittee — has taken deep hold of the public mind, 
become the subject of general approbation, and, with 
many, one of much enthusiasm. It is comparatively 
easy to take advantage of this strong tide setting in its 
favor, and which, rightly improved, it is believed, may 
bear it on to an early accomplishment. While, on 
the other hand, any other plan must require another 
great expenditure of time, thought, and labor, in pro- 
curing the designs and estimates of cost, and in 
preparing the minds of the Alumni and of the public 
for their reception ; to say nothing of the lassitude and 
disgust, with which, after a long-established prefer- 



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ence or excitement in favor of one project, any sub- 
stitute is, for a while, contemplated. The undersigned 
are profoundly convinced, that, if this plan be now 
abandoned, or be proved impracticable, no other 
worthy of the College or of her sons can for a long 
time to come be attainable. 

And not only so, but they are further of the confi- 
dent belief, that the successful accomplishment of this 
design would be the surest means of the early attain- 
ment of any other desirable object for the benefit 
of the College, including a new building for the 
library if needed. They entirely concur in the view 
taken by a distinguished member of the Committee, 
when he said, " I do not believe that the adoption of 
this scheme will interfere with any other work which 
it may be desirable to undertake. On the contrary, 
I am fully of the opinion that we can make no more 
auspicious beginning of the improvements and re- 
forms which are called for at Harvard, than by the 
erection of this edifice. Let there be a Hall of 
the Alumni, where they may assemble in genial fel- 
lowship, and consult together in regard to the con- 
dition of their Alma Mater, and where they may be 
inspired by the pictured and sculptured presence of 
her founders and benefactors and most distinguished 
sons ; and their pride in her past history will be 
revived, their zeal for her future welfare will be re- 
kindled, and a new impulse will be given to the 
accomplishment of every thing which may promote her 
prosperity and honor." 

The Committee have the gratification to announce 



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that the President and Fellows of the Corporation, to 
whom- the plan has been submitted, have not only 
given to it the sanction of their approbation, but have 
also agreed to furnish a suitable site for the building, 
and to appropriate the memorably generous donation 
of Mr, Charles Sanders, mentioned in a former report 
(expected to amount to about fifty thousand dollars), 
towards the erection of it, as appears by the following 
copy of their vote : — 

At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College, 
January 20, 1866. 

A communication to the Board from Charles Gr. Loring, Esq., 
being presented and read, asking the approbation of the President 
and Fellows to the plan of the Alumni Hall prepared by Ware and 
Van Brunt, Architects, and to the proposal that the means to con- 
struct the building shall be procured by subscription, and the use 
of the funds given and bequeathed by Charles Sanders, Esq., and 
that when sufficient means are procured the building shall be 
erected, 

Voted, That this Board approve the plan submitted ; and, when 
sufficient means are furnished, will authorize the erection of the 
building on some suitable site in or near the College yard, and 
will appropriate for its construction the funds received from Mr. 
Sanders, provided, and so far as, the purposes to which the build- 
ing is devoted are consistent with the conditions of Mr. Sanders' 
bequest. 

The last clause was added, by way of precaution, 
to indicate the necessity of restricting the appropri- 
ation to such portions of the structure as shall fall 
clearly within the design of the donor. It is not 
perceived why, if the friends of Mr. Sanders shall 
desire, or the Corporation shall elect, to have this 
donation applied particularly either to the Theatre or 



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to the Hall, the one or the other of these may not 
thenceforth bear his name, as the " Sanders Hall," or 
" Sanders Theatre." The monumental portion must, 
of course, be the subject of the united contributions. 

The total cost of the structure, at the present prices 
of material and labor, is estimated to be about two 
hundred thousand dollars, leaving the sum of about 
one hundred and fifty thousand to be raised by con- 
tribution. 

Brethren of the Alumni and friends of Harvard, to 
you she now makes her earnest and confident appeal 
for relief from the necessities we have laid before you, 
the removal of which will not only form a memorable 
epoch in her history, but be productive of the highest 
and happiest influences upon her future destiny. 

From those to whom, in the Divine Providence, 
much has been allotted, she hopes for corresponding 
aid. Of those whose means are more limited, she 
asks for that only which those means allow. It is to 
be remembered, that as the greatest sum is but the 
aggregate of many small ones, and as the full river 
is fed from trickling fountains, so every contribution, 
however small, adds its essential value to the whole 
gift. Still more it is to be remembered, that it is not 
the amount, but the spirit, which sanctifies the gift ; 
and that the larger the number of her children and 
friends to whom she may owe this testimonial of their 
regard, the more grateful and the more glorious will 
be the benefit conferred. 

It were indeed to be wished that every living 
Alumnus, and the friends of those who have departed, 



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in their names or for their sakes, with all who cherish 
an interest in her welfare, might thus lay something 
at her feet, so that the noble structure might stand, to 
all time, a monument of their love and loyalty. 



THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY. 



Charles G. Loring (Chairman), A.B. 


of 


1812 


Jacob Bigelow, „ . 


1806 


David Sears, , 






1807 


James Walker, ,. 






1814 


John G. Palfrey, , 






1815 


Stephen Salisbury, , 






1817 


Sidney Bartlett, , 






1818 


R. W. Emerson, , 






. 1821 


Francis C. Lowell, , 






. 1821 


Henry B. Rogers, , 






1822 


William Amory, , 






1823 


Christopher T. Thayer, , 






. 1824 


Samuel H. Walley, , 






. 1826 


Stephen M. Weld, , 






. 1826 


Robert C. Winthrop, , 






. 1828 


George T. Bigelow, , 






. 1829 


Oliver W. Holmes, , 






1829 


Robert W. Hooper, , 






1830 


Thomas Gr. Appleton, , 






1831 


Josiah G. Abbott, , 






. 1832 


Waldo Higginson, , 






1833 


Thomas Wigglesworth, , 






1833 


Turner Sargent, , 






. 1834 


Amos A. Lawrence, , 






. 1834 


Henry Lee, Jr., , 






. 1835 


R. H. Dana, Jr., , 






1837 


P. T. Jackson, , 






. 1838 


Samuel Eliot, , 
3 






. 1839 



18 



Edward E. Hale, A.B. of 








1839 


James Lawrence, , 








1840 


Edward N. Perkins, , 










1841 


Leverett Saltonstall, , 










1844 


Francis J. Child, , 










1846 


Charles E. Guild, , 










1846 


Charles E. Norton, , 










1846 


Charles F. Choate, , 










1849 


Samuel Batchelder, Jr., , 










1851 


H. H. Coolidge, , 










1852 


George Putnam, Jr., , 










1854 


Theodore Lyman, , 










1855 


George B. Chase, , 


, 








1856 


John C. Ropes, , 










1857 


John T. Morse, Jr., , 










. 1860 


Edw. A. Crowninshield, , 










. 1861 


Charles F. Folsom, , 










. 1862 


William Greenough, , 










1863 


Richard H. Derby, , 










. 1864 


J. Ingersoll Bowditch, A.M. 








. 1849 


G. Howland Shaw, „ 








. 1860 


William Everett (Secretar 


yM 


..B 






. 1859 



February 12, 1866. 



DESCRIPTION. 



This design embraces three principal parts : — 

I. The Hall. 
II. The Theatre. 
III. The Monument. 

These three divisions are distinct from each other, but are so 
combined as to form a single composition. 

I. The Hall includes an area of sixty feet by a hundred and 
thirty-two. It is thirty-seven feet from the floor to the top of the 
walls within, and eighty feet to the ridge of the roof in the centre. 
The roof is framed in open timber-work, with hammer-beam 
trusses, and bears a general resemblance to the famous roof of 
"Westminster Hall, and to the roofs of many of the collegiate 
halls at Oxford and Cambridge. The outward thrust of these 
trusses is met by external buttresses. The upper part of the side 
walls between these buttresses is occupied by windows, beneath 
which, on the inside, is a continuous wainscoting of hard wood, 
twenty feet high, against which are to be hung the pictures belong- 
ing to the college, and in front of which may be placed the busts, 
statues, or other academic memorials that may from time to time 
accumulate. Portraits or busts of men who have served in the 
war will, it is hoped, in time, form a prominent feature of this 
collection ; but this portion of the building will not belong to them 
in any distinctive and exclusive sense, and will have only that 
general memorial character which the honors paid by their Alma 
Mater to all her distinguished sons necessarily give it. It may 
suitably be used for any purpose to which a room of this size 
is adapted, and is capable of accommodating comfortably at table 
a thousand guests. 



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There is, at either end of the Hall, a gallery for music or for 
spectators, twenty feet deep, and sixty feet long. The side walls, 
below the portion intended for pictures, are panelled to the height 
of six feet from the "floor. 

At the end of the Hall, towards the Theatre, is a platform or dais, 
raised a few steps from the floor, for the use of presiding officers 
and distinguished guests. Immediately adjoining, and separated 
from it only by a partition wall, is the stage of the Theatre, which 
is in like manner set apart for the Corporation, the Overseers, 
the immediate Government, and distinguished guests. Over this 
central portion of the building rises a tower, thirty-three feet by 
seventy, and a hundred and fifty-six feet in height up to the ridge 
of the roof, which forms the central and dominant feature of the 
whole composition, and marks upon the outside the importance 
and dignity of the place beneath it. The walls of this tower are 
supported upon arches, of which the one towards the Hall, fifty 
feet wide, incloses the dais and the singing gallery mentioned 
above ; there is a similar but larger proscenium arch on the side 
towards the Theatre, covering the stage, and also containing a 
gallery for music. These arches are abutted by the walls of the 
staircase halls. 

In these staircase halls upon either side are the main entrances 
to the building. These entrances communicate directly with the 
Hall by doors opening upon the dais, and with the Theatre by 
stairs, which start under an arcade of three arches ; one division 
descending to an ambulatory, or corridor, which runs round the 
Theatre at the level of the ground, and the other two ascending 
to the passages above it, behind the first and second grade of 
seats. Three rows of windows mark upon the outside the position 
of these three floors. This ambulatory, which, besides bringing 
the opposite sides of the house into easy communication, enables 
persons to collect and talk without disturbing the audience in the 
Theatre, affords entrance to the floor of the house or pit by ample 
passages or vomitoria on either side. There is also an outer door 
opening to the rear of the building. 

Opening from one of the staircase halls is a withdrawing-room 
for the officers of the Alumni or of the College, thirty-two feet 
by twenty-five, large enough for the meetings of the Overseers. 
In the basement beneath are accommodations for the caterer, 
which have separate communication with the Hall. 



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II. The Theatre, with its ambulatory, vomitoria, and prosce- 
nium or stage, is not unlike those of classic antiquity ; the arrange- 
ment of seats being semicircular, and all sloping towards the 
speakers, whom all the spectators have an equal opportunity of 
seeing and hearing. There is, however, a gallery about two-thirds 
as deep as the range of seats beneath it, supported on columns. 
It is proposed to have no seats in the pit. In this, the example 
of the famous Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford has been followed ; 
a building, which, as a successful solution of a problem almost 
identical with this, has been made a particular object of study in 
the preparation of this design. It is said to exhibit an audience 
to better advantage than any room in England, and the means 
by which this is effected have been observed with care. ' This 
design exhibits accommodation for about sixteen hundred per- 
sons seated, and half as many more standing or sitting in the 
passages. This is about half as many again as the church will 
contain in which the literary exercises are now held. 

The Theatre is covered by an open timber roof of peculiar 
construction, without supports from the floor, and with the whole 
interior height unobstructed by ties. 

In entering by either principal entrance, a procession would 
ascend the broad flight of steps within, and, passing through the 
proscenium door, descend upon the stage with great dignity and 
effect in full sight of the audience. On occasions, however, on 
which the Hall is not occupied at the same time for other pur- 
poses, it would itself serve as a magnificent vestibule ; and a pro- 
cession, passing first through the monumental cloister at the other 
end of the building, would traverse the whole length of the Hall, 
and, crossing the dais, enter at once upon the centre of the stage. 

III. The Monumental or Memorial division of this building is 
an independent structure at the end of the Hall. The whole end 
of the building is treated as an external mural monument, upon 
an unprecedented scale ; the great height and breadth of the wall 
giving, by its mere mass, a dignity otherwise unattainable. To 
increase the monumental effect, all features of mere utility, such 
as doors and windows, are avoided. Above the level of the 
cornice, the wall surface rises into a decorated tablet about thirty 
feet in width and height, projected and defined against the back- 
ground of the roof. On this is sculptured the ancient arms of 



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the College, with the motto "Veritas," supported by the laurel 
and the palm, emblems of heroism and martyrdom. Below there 
will be an appropriate inscription, the form of which is reserved as 
a subject for further consideration. 

Below the inscription are three flat niches, covered with a 
canopy of foliated arches, and containing the names of the ninety- 
three graduates and students who have fallen. A space three 
feet long and eight inches in height is given to each name. On 
the face of the wall on either side are cut passages from Scrip- 
ture or the poets. Beneath is an arcade of seven pointed arches 
supported by shafts of polished red Gloucester granite, with carved 
capitals. This arcade, which is unglazed, opens upon the monu- 
mental cloister mentioned above, which occupies the interior of 
this structure. It is sixteen feet wide, and, including the porches 
at the ends, a hundred feet long ; affording upon its walls ample 
space for such tablets or other more private and personal memo- 
rials as classmates or friends may erect in further commemora- 
tion of those whose names are written upon the tablet outside, 
as also for the commemoration of students in other departments of 
the University. These special memorials will be visible through 
the arcade from without, and will thus serve to enhance the gene- 
ral sentiment of the external monument, without interfering with 
its unity and simplicity of line and. mass. 

An ample doorway opens from the centre of this cloister into 
the Hall, with access to the gallery above on each side. 

The building is designed to be erected in freestone and brick, or 
in freestone altogether, as may prove best : in either case, two va- 
rieties of stone would be used. Detailed estimates, which have 
been prepared with the assistance of some of our best mechanics, 
exhibit a sum total of about $200,000. The substitution of free- 
stone for brick on the outer walls would make an addition of about 
$20,000. But, in any case, it is proposed to have the monumental 
portion entirely of stone, and thus, by its material as well as by its 
form, to distinguish it from the rest of the building. 

WILLIAM R. WARE, 
HENRY VAN BRUNT, 

Architects. 

L.tfTW. 



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FINANCE COMMITTEE. 



Amos A. Lawrence {Chairman). 


A.B. of . 


. 1835 


Stephen H. Tyng, 


55 


1817 


Larz Anderson, 


55 


1822 


Stephen M. Weld, 


55 


1826 


Henry W. Bellows, 


55 


. 1832 


Samuel Osgood, 


55 


. 1832 


Waldo Higginson, 


55 


1833 


Thomas Donaldson, 


55 


. 1834 


Joseph Sargent, 


55 


. 1834 


Joseph H. Williams, 


55 


. 1834 


Henry Lee, Jr. (Treasurer), 


55 


. 1836 


J. F. W. Ware, 


55 • 


. 1838 


John Kebler, 


55 


1839 


Charles F. Shimmin, 


55 


1842 


Francis J. Child, 


55 


1846 


Charles E. Guild, 


55 


. 1846 


Frederick A. Lane, 


55 


. 1849 


Joseph H. Choate, 


55 


1852 


Charles W. Eliot, 


55 


1853 


Atherton Blight, 


55 


1854 


Horace H. Furness, 


55 


1854 


Phillips Brooks, 


55 


1855 

lour 




55 


Alexander McKenzie, 


55 


1859 


J. I. Bowditch, 


A.M. 


1849 


G. Howland Shaw, 


55 


1860 


George C. Ward, 






William Everett {Secretary), 


A.B. . . 


1859 




A/Jy 


BUILDING COMMITTEE. 




Henry B. "Rogers {Chairman), 


A.B. of . 


. 1822 


Turner Sargent, 


55 


. 1834 


J. Elliot Cabot, 


55 • 


. 1840 


Charles E. Norton, 


55 


. 1846 


Theodore Lyman, 


55 


. 1855 



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